Have to say that after spending 18 yrs as a Gutenberger, all the office study time did me wonders in my mind, but made me and my church dysfunctional in being a relational people. We are at the place where we have to "encourage", "coax", and "intentionally plan" for people to be together in small groups in the church. While in our Google culture, this is not forced, or pushed...... It is happening naturally at every moment of the day for them. They are connected and with people in many more ways and times than any of us churchy Gurenbergers are.
We as a church are out to lunch these days. If we have to "encourage" people to join a small group, there is something contrived about the way we do small groups. Anyway, Leonard Sweets Book Viral is pushing us to realize we don't have to fabricate in the church, what this generation does naturally. All we have to do is get out of their way..... it's us older guys who have to "learn" how to connect to our community again.....Read the book VIRAL. This quote is a corker...
We as a church are out to lunch these days. If we have to "encourage" people to join a small group, there is something contrived about the way we do small groups. Anyway, Leonard Sweets Book Viral is pushing us to realize we don't have to fabricate in the church, what this generation does naturally. All we have to do is get out of their way..... it's us older guys who have to "learn" how to connect to our community again.....Read the book VIRAL. This quote is a corker...
"If we had any doubts that God wants a relationship with us, Jesus's life on earth supplies the final proof. God didn't send us a treatise; God sent a Person. And in our culture, either Googler or Gutenberger, it's often hard to find Jesus amid the clutter of words. While it might seem that Googlers (the thumb-texting acronym crowd) treat words too lightly, they are driven to find and maintain connection with one another.
In their dogged tweeting, blogging, Facebooking, and IMing, Googlers have stumbled onto the heart of Christian faith and meaning. Oddly, they have arrived at a place that echos the earliest Christians and their faith communities. I'm not saying that TGIF Culture is more consciously in tne with God than are the Gutenbergers. But I am saying that Googlers (Of any age) recognize a need in their lives and they act on it. Repeatedly. Some would even say constantly...... Gutenbergers might be more apt at describing in words what a relationship is and why it is needed. But Googlers are light-years ahead when it comes to the practicum."
(Leonard Sweet: Viral: Social Networking.)
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